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[Captivate Accessories] kphenix:
good price on samsung captivate batteries

You can find a samsung captivate battery online at batteries4less.com. They have the original battery for $30.95 and a generic version for $14.95....plus a year warranty.:o
[Captivate Accessories] thejanitor86:
its not that batteries from ebay are bad. they just vary in performance. and you may have a higher chance of a battery failure.
[Captivate Accessories] Overgloc:
I got one for sale $20 Shipped in the Lower 48. Do we have a market place to sell stuff?
[Captivate Accessories] moore808:
I think that ebay/amazon batteries are a better choice than OEM. They might vary a little bit, but for the most part, the cost to benefit difference is better on the ebay version. I bought an extended battery off amazon for $13 and I still get 2 days use even with playing games on it. I couldn't even make it 8 hours on my original battery from samsung.
[Captivate Accessories] razvanadrian:
after how many moths did you guys change your battery?

i got my captivate in march this year...and i just wanna have an idea about when to expect a battery change.
[Captivate Accessories] snowboardin159:
Batteries are good to have several of
[Captivate Accessories] pwnerman:
my phone has been rocking the same battery since at least late December and i have had no noticeable loss in efficiency. Maybe I just have a good stock battery but they last awhile. and im a phoneiholic, im constantly on my phone doing many different things so the battery has had its workout
[Captivate Accessories] minduka:
I bought generic batteries from ebay and none of them have failed. There are some disadvantages.

1. Varying performance

2. Faster charge loss

3. Slower charge times

From personal experience.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wliu88:
anybody know about gtalk use plain text or secured data transfer?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] INeedYourHelp:
Not to be an ass, but if you knew you wanted those features, then why did you get it? It's obvious from any picture of a SGS that it doesn't have a trackball. And early reports from this forum would have informed you that it doesn't have notification lights...

Of course one does have to wonder why Samsung didn't go all out. How hard would it have been to add camera flash among those other things you listed.

You might be interested in the Desire HD that's rumored to be coming out sometime soon.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
Leoni,

I know you're not exactly in love with the swype keyboard yet, but I think you'll love it fiercely once you get into it. You know how I hated swype in the past, I think, because of my fierce liking for Tengo. But even I can like swype keyboard, and like it a lot.

The copy/cut and paste being poorly designed as compared to iPhone will be something that we had to put up with, no matter which Android phone we switch to. Granted at HTC has the iPhone-like copy and paste facility, but that's not available uniformly across the system and across all applications. So, I reckon there isn't much effective difference across different android phones in this regards. I know the lack of trackball makes text selection difficult, but not impossible I believe. But with or without trackball, the design are all bad. Perhaps a future firmware could redo cut and paste from the ground up again and get it right.

Overall, when I read your comparison, I thought it was overwhelmingly positive towards SGS, a lot more then Nexus. It was the conclusion which took me by surprise.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] leoni1980:
It's not so much a lack of trackball that's the problem so much as a complete lack of innovation with respect to compensating for the lack of a trackball. Ironically HTC sense implements a good system very similar to (perhaps even BETTER than) the iPhone's magnified system within the Desire browser, yet the Desire requires such a system far LESS than the i9000 owing to its optical trackball.

Text selection on the N1 is very easy in the browser: click in the trackball, move the arrow cursor click again to highlight. It's such a pity that Samsung didn't devote a little more time to core features that make the user experience more friendly and enjoyable rather than making those ugly widgets and pointless add-on apps.

Dont get me wrong I do really like the phone but it just feels too proprietary, too unfinished and too lacking in development support compared to.the N1, despite its many nice features.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] distortedloop:
I also switched from Nexus One to Galaxy S, and didn't realize how much I'd used the trackball until it was gone. Same with the camera flash led. I knew they weren't on the SGS, but didn't think I'd miss them. I definitely do. Unlike the original poster, they're not deal-breakers for me, but throw in those two oversights and the plastic back/frame and I feel like the SGS, which had the potential to be the PERFECT phone for the next several months at least, can't claim that title clearly. I'm not getting rid of mine, though. I love Swype (Shapewriter even more) and can deal with the lack of easy text selection.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] leoni1980:
I've already sold my Nexus. I have a 32gb iPhone which Apple have fixed for me after I left it faulty and unused for months so Im thinking of going back until something new comes along. I got the Galaxy on upgrade and suspect (as with all samsung phones) that its value will plummet very rapidly so i'm going to sell it while I can still get a reasonable price on it. Maybe I'll buy the Droid x, maybe the iPhone 4....maybe the Desire HD....either way I'm selling the Galaxy S before it gets any tattier.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tenshi888:
I agree with the points of the OP, I'm in the same situation, coming from a Nexus One to the Galaxy S. I'm coming to a different conclusion though: I'm keeping the Galaxy S. I find the cell signal/reception to be significantly better, pretty outstanding actually. Also, it just feels much faster in terms of data both via 3G and Wifi.

It's still early, the Nexus One has had a lot of time to mature. I believe the ROMs along with the upcoming 2.2 will give the Galaxy S the polish it needs. As for the casing, well, the material will certainly scuff faster but I'm not really feeling the back plastic is too cheap-- it feels just like my old iPhone 3G, which no one accused of feeling cheap.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alovell83:
The ending was a surprise to me, but to each there own.

From all comparisons I've read, this has a better speaker than the iPhone 3G (not sure about anything beyond that), the iPhone 3G didn't even have as good a speaker as the iPod Touch 2.

I am either misunderstanding or you have it wrong, I use SwiftKey and I can select text, and select text very well. The screen is so accurate and I don't have to do much. Wherever my cursor is it will start there, so if I'm not where I need to be I move the cursor there which typically takes one touch, then I select my ending point which again I get right more often than not. Where I'll agree with you though is in apps, I read engadget and God is there touch accuracy off in that app for whatever reason. I have to literally be a cm away from the location I want and maybe above/below where I want. Typically I just settle for retyping extra...a trackball here would be marvelous.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alovell83:
I was thinking of getting an N1 in addition to my Galaxy S. I'm in Korea and the N1 has been available for about a month, I got my Galaxy S about 3 weeks ago when they first came out. Now they are moving to unlimited data and free tethering so I was thinking about going with 2 devices. Samsung Hub just reported that FroYo is coming to Korea in about 2 weeks though, which takes some of the steam out of me wanting the N1.

What do you 2 think? Would you get the N1 unlocked, without a plan? I was 67% going to get it when I heard the data plans, then now it's flipped to 33% now that I heard FroYo...what to do?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] miker71:
Good balanced review, though I am surprised at the conclusion :)

The SGS certainly has some annoyances compared to my old N1+Froyo, however I'm confident the SGS firmwares will improve on this great hardware.

For me, camera flash = consistently rubbish looking photos; I don't miss visual notifications because the SGS is in my pocket and its more important the phone be loud; Cut-and-Paste - yes a little easier using the N1 trackball but I seem to rarely want to do c'n'p except to share a URL or whatever; Positioning the cursor was definitely easier using a trackball but I'm a big fan of Swype and I use the cursor positioning so rarely that it's not a big deal for me to use the Swype cursor keys. The iPhone definitely has the superior c'n'p implementation, but for a function I use so infrequently I don't miss it that much (before the N1, I was on a iPhone 3G).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] leoni1980:
For me the trackball/cursor issue ismt just about being able to cut copy and paste, its about being able to get the cursor back where it was supposed to be if it happens to move! And it seems to happen to me a lot

just so you can see my point, try typing out a sentence here on these forums within the browser then move the cursor slightly....see how efficiently you can put the cursor back where it should be
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
I can see where Leoni is coming from and why his decision makes sense though. With iPhone 4, Droid X, and Desire HD in the horizon, it does make sense. Leoni has experienced just about every phones available. The only thing i wonder is if he's leaving enough money for his retirement. :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] leoni1980:
EDIT**** The trackball-less system strikes again

I don't know what you mean Eaglesteve: in the last year i've only owned an iphone 3G, T-Mobile G1, Sony Ericsson C905. HTC Magic, iPhone 3Gs, HTC Hero, HTC HD2, Motorola Dext, Samsung Galaxy, Samsung Omnia 2, Google Nexus One, HTC Desire and a Samsung Galaxy S....

;-)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
Is that right? I thought you had an HD2 and HTC desire as well, no? What about Nexus one? BTW, why did you get an iPhone 3G instead if 3GS last year?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] leoni1980:
See my revised post. Ironically the cursor decided to move and in the process of trying to get it back in place I hit 'submit Reply'. Can you see why I am getting annoyed with this phone now??

Yes I KNOW there is the XDA app 'brought to me by Tapatalk' but I just don't blinking LIKE it....
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
OMG...I know you've tried many phones but not in my wildest dream that many, hahaha.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] leoni1980:
I forgot to mention the Nokia 5800 and the cheap N95 I picked up.

One or two devices barely saw a week's usage!

I still like the iPhone for pure 'appliance' slickness and have loads of iPhone docks and external battery add-ons; sadly I despise Apple's closed ecosystem. I may yet change my mind about the Galaxy S - I'm just particularly irritated with it this morning.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] appelflap:
I think that the soft d-pad of the Galaxy works suprisingly good when it comes to text selection. It is triggered by default in the newest firmware (don't believe it is triggered in the older firmware).

Anyway one can manually trigger the soft d-pad by holding down the "?123" button on the standard samsung keyboard. Very nice feature....
[Galaxy S I9000 General] leoni1980:
But that necessitates using the default keyboard and despite trying to like it for four days straight I just found it very unlikeable
[Galaxy S I9000 General] appelflap:
I think it all depends on the device you are comming from. I come from a HTC HD2 and the keyboard is a relief for me. (due mostly to the better cap. touchscreen of samsung)

It's good to have device by device comparisons. But I think one always have to take into perspective the platform or device one particular person is comming from. For a HD2 user the nexus maybe worse than the galaxy. For a nokia user maybe not. Persons are historically situated :)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdmoore81:
Is there a way to have a froyo root zip without superuser.apk
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Diceman4:
It is possible, but why would you want to do that? The superuser app prevents apps from gaining root access without any prompt from the user. If you didn't have it root apps would have free reign over your device...

EDIT: Oh and next time post questions in the Q&A, you will avoid snarky replies that way :-)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdmoore81:
Ok thanks the only reason is I like thing to look stock with root access like the black twitter and Facebook widget and I usually remove once I have root
[Vibrant General] rhcp011235:
Hello,

Can someone with a INTL version of this phone with the AP/wifi tether please give me their /data/

Adb remount

adb pull /data/

then zip and send to me. or post here.
[Vibrant General] DAKIDD236:
You should've posted this in the Galaxy S forum so you could get a response from someone with an international Galaxy S.
[Vibrant General] marsupial99:
Good point. Rhcp0112345, probably a good idea to ask for this in the Galaxy S forum since they have what you need and we don't. Are you planning to try to make it run on Android. Kudos to you for doing this.
[Vibrant General] rhcp011235:
I posted in both. Im trying to hack the wifi tether ap
[Vibrant General] marsupial99:
Rhcp0112345, somebody posted in the other thread about mobileAP.apk that Modaco custom rom r2 for Galaxy S contains all the apps and they are deodexed already. Just a matter of downloading that and pulling out the apk. The application by itself might however rely on some additional libraries to function.
[Vibrant General] marsupial99:
Here's the MobileAP.apk from Modaco rom.

There is also libmobileap.jar that I found in /system/framework that might be needed perhaps. I am attaching it too. I had to add .zip extension to the libmobileap.jar so that I could attach it. Just rename it back to libmobileap.jar. I don't know if it is necessary but I thought I would include it just in case.
[Vibrant General] rhcp011235:
THanks.

But that does not help me.

I need a /data/ dump from a rooted phone.

The package wont install without it.
[Nexus One General] learnandroid:
news come from Google blog

google stop sell Nexus one via online

On july 16,2010

they said it's last shipment
[Nexus One General] egzthunder1:
Moved to N1 General.
[Nexus One General] dsixda:
Three days late...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=727402
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Armyjon88:
Does anyone know all the files needed to add live wallpaper support to original slide rom or is it even possible I'm looking to revert back to stock but I live the galactic core live wallpaper but as of right now all I have found are roms that support them. And yes I've used slidemeroot 2, and 5r1 and slide m all I wasn't is to push the files needed for live wallpapers To work on stock esprimg. Thank you in advance.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zachattack052:
its not posible, you need to be rooted, because the stock rom for the slide doesn't have livewallpaperpicker.apk and you cant just install it like other apks
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Armyjon88:
I just installed it with appinstaller on my wifes never before modded slide and I can select live wallpapers but it force closes after I select "the application live wallpaper picker (process android.process.acore) has stopped unexpectedly."
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Armyjon88:
I know there is a ".so" files with a port of the galaxy s wallpapers maybe you need that file as well
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shadowmike:
/system/app/LiveWallpapers.apk

/system/app/LiveWallpapersPicker.apk

/system/lib/libRS.so

/system/lib/librs_jni.so

I have found that enabling livewallpapers will break the bootanimation on the stock slide rom w/root...

I reverted to the rooted slide stock for the 1000KB mms limit and have been adding the extras here and there.

edit. I have a Zip for you to flash on top of your rom in recovery. it will add optimized live-wallpapers and the new cyanogen CM6 boot-animation.. Also because of the slides outrageously fast boot-up you may or may not see the end of the boot animation.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tubaking182:
i thank you for this as i have been looking into this as well. this is much appreciated
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TakoLuffer:
Have you used a home alternative???

Sent From My R..r..r..rooted MyTouchy Sliderz
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tubaking182:
on a stock ROM without lwp support it will not work, the hjome alternatives do not include these tweaks
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RavenWulf:
this is probably a dumb question and I might be setting myself up for a noob drumming... but does this only work with stock ROMs or will it work with any ROM? I have been trying to replace the "Droid" boot animation on Eugene's SlideMR1v4 and have been failing badly. either way I will be downloading this for my mother-in-law's rooted but otherwise stock MTS
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tubaking182:
if you are looking for a way to remove boot animation then just flash a new one, or put a bootanimation.zip in /data/local if you are looking for lwps with this then you should be able to flash it no problem
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Clom801:
So if I add this zip I won't need adw to get LWs? Will I still be able to keep all the HTC widgets? Right now I'm using slidemerootr1.Thanks in advance.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shadowmike:
This is only for STOCK (non livewallpaper Roms.) A Launcher like ADW or Launcher2 or whatever is still needed to see the live wallapapers.

this should work on other roms as well.

also if you dont want the bootanimation from cyan cm6 use 7zip to remove the bootanimation.zip from /data/local/ in the zip
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Armyjon88:
Thank you for the replies. You say you have a zip file is it available for download?
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shadowmike:
in my post silly http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7260294&postcount=5
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Armyjon88:
Ok so now that we have established that we can add live wallpaper support, how would someone get the new droid x wallpaper and the samsung galaxy s to work on the slide. I'm pretty sure its due to the image size and/or a missing library file, can anyone add to this?
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Armyjon88:
Is there someone that can find out exactly what xml coding is needed to make a live wallpaper viewable it might be possible to add it to the sense ui to make it visible, what do you think?
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mulletman:
i installed that zip file on the slide im now able to view the live wall papers but for some reason when i try to set one it doesnt doit any help with that would be appreciated. Nevermind i had to us adw launcher.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdkoreclipse:
the phone was not made for live wps. on cm6 it starts force closing.

BUT I WILL EXPLORE THE OPTIONS OF HOW TO GET LIVE WPS AND BE ABLE TO VIEW THEM!
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stratis1978:
I would like to know this too; love the LWPs but really like the SenseUI widgets.

; D
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdkoreclipse:
edit
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shadowmike:
there was a version of espresso port for the g1 months back that had live walls in sense. so there is a version out there somewere.. somone may want to message kingklick to see if he still has it.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lviv73:
Anyone got Galaxy S wallpapers working on slide?I downloaded them from the market,but when I select them it says "wallpaper loading",i wonder if thats because slide is not powerful enough.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
my friends slide fc when he puts on live wp
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Armyjon88:
The galaxy wallpapers will not work on the slide due to their pixel density. It's much higher than the slides 320x480 screen there for they are not compatible.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] byto1:
Hey hows it going ? I am a total noob. My slide is rooted and all. I still have the original stock rom. Could you please tell me how to exactly "flash on top of my rom in recovery" as stated in your post. I would like to have Live wallpaper support on my phone and do not know how. Please Help.

Thank you in advance.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shadowmike:
Save the zip to your sdcard

Reboot into recovery

Flash zip from sdcard

Choose the livewallpapers zip

reboot
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] egzthunder1:
Moved to Q&A.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chris.wilcox:
mt3g

Can I flash this onto my myTouch 3G (original) if I root it? Currently its unrooted, stock 2.2.1

Thanks!
[XPERIA X10 General] lildic:
i want to know about x10 headset quality?is it better than ipod/iphone or same as iphone/ipod :)

help me thanks .
[XPERIA X10 General] lildic:
(bump) help me
[XPERIA X10 General] KurskS:
Much better i can say, iphone's earpiece has way to much treble and lack of bass, where as X10's on is balanced between both. Of course they both cannot be as good as the standalone ones:D
[XPERIA X10 General] Cinner:
If quality is important to you, you'd better spend a little extra and buy new ones. There's plenty of good, low-cost options. I have the M9's from Meelec.com. The quality of the wires is very good, and you get alot of different earbuds to fit your personal needs and ear size. And they don't cost much.
[XPERIA X10 General] bcool15:
i used monster turbine inear headphones sound wayyyy louder on iphone 4,

im a proud x10a owner though
[XPERIA X10 General] lildic:
Ok thanks fellas
[Droid Incredible General] melophat:
so, i've been searching here and androidforums.com to see how to install apps2sd on my inc. I want to install to the stock rom because until CM6 has all the bugs worked out of it, i need a stable phone for work.. so far everything I've found says i need to flash a rom with it already included.. so... for those that are smarter than I in regards to all things android, can i put apps2sd on my phone with the mostly stock, rooted sense rom?
[Droid Incredible General] trunksta:
Patience. I'm sure as soon as its available xda will be one of the first to post the method.
[Droid Incredible General] jakontil:
i realise the internal phone storage available is 746MB, i dont think there is a need for app2sd?
[Droid Incredible General] trunksta:
If I recall correctly the phone has 512 RAM and 512 Rom. Plus the 8gb internal storage. Apps running from SD frees up more of the RAM for better performance.

Anyways this thread should probably be removed since there are tons of others on this subject
[Droid Incredible General] melophat:
if that's the case, then something is up with my phone.. I was trying to install the NFS rip from the droid x and it says i dont have ennough space on my phone and i know damn well i'm not using even close to the 746mb available.
[Droid Incredible General] palomosan:
Yep I have the same question, I tried it and it said the same thing?
[Droid Incredible General] SiL3nTKiLL:
same question man!
[XPERIA X10 Accessories] junkk29:
Hey guys, I'm getting my X10 this week and I think it would be a good idea to order a screen protector beforehand cuz it takes time to ship if I order it online. I am aware of the fact that Rachael already has a screen protector that came with the box but I just saw a screen protector with a mirror surface on ebay. This stuff looks interesting so I'm wondering if any of you guys are using or have used it? you can look for it on ebay by typing in "mirror screen protector for x10". I want to know whether if affects the touch screen sensitivity or not. They're advertised as "Improves handwriting recognition"...whatever the heck that means, i don't think that's possible :p opinions?